prisons

Nepal’s prisons need to be depopulated

Even before the current coronavirus scare, Nepal’s overcrowded prisons were hotbeds for infectious diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid and influenza. But public health...

"Prisons can be incubators for COVID-19"

Nepali Times spoke to Barun Mathema, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York...

Charles Shobraj out of lockup during lockdown?

Among a list of 13 elderly prisoners that Nepal’s jail administration has moved forward is one name that has taken everyone by...

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